Discourse Watch: Obama's Citizenship A Legit Topic?

Townhall.com is a mainstream, legitimate, comprehensive, informative, and entertaining conservative news and opinion magazine and website. Disclosure: they've written nice things about me. To liberals and non-conservatives, their content can sometimes be edgy.  Well, this is beyond edgy.

Like other political websites, Townhall lends its imprimatur to featured advertisers in e-mail segments, bracketing fundraising appeals or products in what they call the "Spotlight from Townhall." Townhall's list of subscribers is quite large.

Today, the Townhall.com spotlight features a fundraising plea from a foundation that wants to prove, in court, that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be president and therefore wants to do a whole lot of bad things involving amnesty, illegal aliens and the United Nations. Obama'd be the "Usurper in Chief." The birth charge is specious and has been convincingly refuted.

I assume that the ad content doesn't represent the editorial opinion of Townhall, but there's no disclaimer, and the "Spotlight" box seems to suggest the opposite, leaving the impression that Townhall endorses the claims.

E-mails and telephone messages left with Townhall staff, including its chief sales rep, were not immediately returned.